Wow, surprised by the result so far Fife & Drum range just leaves me cold, if I wanted miniatures like that I'd just go with 20mm plastics. Both Empress and Perry Ranges listed their I would place way ahead.

I am honored that the voters selected Fife & Drum Miniatures as the Best Historical figure range of 2011 and want to thank everyone for their support. There are so many nice figure ranges to choose from, making the final tally more meaningful.

We made even more progress in 2012, bringing the range up to nearly 100 different figures and pieces of artillery equipment with many more in the pipeline for 2013.

1/56? Really? In don't understand Mikelands posting re: 20mm plastics. Where are these guys from? Who's the sculpter what's his background? Where's the cavalry? Why not sculpt casualties if it's a new line of miniatures voted best? If these guys are at LW I'll be dropping in for certain. TC

I will definitely be at Little Wars this year as a dealer. I hope to also run an AWI game in the evening, after the dealer area closes.

The Fife & Drum Miniatures are sculpted by the talented Richard Ansell (who also sculpts the Minden SYW, Alba Napoleonic and Crann Tara Jacobite Rebellion figures). 1/56 is a scale rather than a size (28mm is a size, not a scale)but for those counting millimeters, they are close to 31mm high. The figures look like real people because of the fact that everything is scultped in scale.

The game plan has always been to start with providing all of the basic infantry, artillery and cavalry figure for both sides. Thus, if you buy in to Fife & Drum you are not going to have to worry about the future availability of certain basic figures that every army needs. You wil be able to collect and field complete armies for both sides.

The first two items (infantry and artillery) have been accomplished and the cavalry is next in the queue. After the basics are done, then we will go back and add things like personalities, vignettes, casualties, Highlanders, Hessians, French and fill in other needed poses that were passed in the first go through.

We have nearly 100 different pieces of soldiers and artillery equipment in the range as of now, with more to follow. I am committed to providing one of the most complete ranges of AWI figures. I think that so far, I have kept my pledge to do so.

Here is a summary of the figures that are currently available from Fife & Drum:

American militiaContinentals in uniform coats and cocked hatsContinentals in hunting shirts and cocked hatsMounted American and British officersAmerican artillery crew (loading and firing sets)British artillery crew(loading and firing sets)

British Brigade of GuardsBritish Light BobsBritish Grenadiers in bearskinsBritish center company infantry